The North Parker | San Diego, California | 2013

Architects: Jonathan Segal
Client: Jonathan Segal
General Contractor: Jonathan Segal
Photographers: Matthew Segal

The North Parker project is now the southern gateway to the newest transitioning neighborhood in San Diego. The corner of 30th street and Upas Street, previously blighted with barely standing structures and a propensity towards vagrants, is now a community gathering point. The affordable housing project has 27 units with four commercial spaces; which consist of two restaurants, a beer-tasting bar, and an architectural office. As one moves through the project, a true sense of pedestrian-scale and community interaction is evident. Interior meets exterior, private meets public, and the neighborhood becomes part interwoven through the project’s circulation.

Multiple entrances through different nodes of the project allow you to transfer between commercial ground plane along the street to the interior garden and courtyard space and then up stairs to the second level main circulation paths. Tenants enter their units through semi-private exterior patio spaces that define their space. All of these transitions are transparent from the commercial spaces to the street, the street to the interior garden and court to the paths to the units and then the unit itself, a constant connection with the street activity and your neighbors facilitates both commercial and residential to be interlaced together.